Re: sourceware hardware transition plan, part 1/N

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@sourceware.org>]

On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 11:28:59AM -0400, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
>Hi -
>
>> Indeed.  My query was more along the lines of figuring out timelines.
>> If the partitioning is as desired and the base OS is installed, that's a
>> significant milestone.
>
>> I see that server[45] are configured with a single data partition /srv.  Is
>> it likely that it will be a mirror of sourceware's current /export/u0 or do
>> folks anticipate some changes in the directory layout?
>
>I've removed the large /srv and created three smaller equal
>/sourceware[123] partitions.  The idea is that one of these would be a
>temporary sourceware rsync destination; one would be the real
>new-sourceware filesystem like /export/u0 was; and one would be a
>local backup (normally unmounted).  Once the transition is complete,
>two of them could be local backups (of different generations, say
>monthly and weekly local rsync's).

Ok, how do we get started?  I can take some time off from work to focus
on this if needed.  We have days available for working on stuff like
this.

Should we rsync stuff over and then start working on a ezmlm->mailman
translation?  We'll also likely need to do a lot of work to keep URLs
correct.

Do we REALLY want to move from ezmlm?  Isn't there an rpm-based package
out there somewhere that we could use?

cgf